Coolcam
Coolcam is a townland in the civil parish of Carn, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Chúil Cham.
- Area
- 5.8 ha
- 14 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 57,897 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Coolcam, from 57,897 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres) to 57,897 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolcam in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE AND ASSOCIAT
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200096
17 Jan 2020N/a
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200036
7 Mar 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190282
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lady's Island Lake SAC 000704
- Special Protection Area: Lady's Island Lake SPA 004009
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lady's Island Lake 000704
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolcam.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolcam.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Coolcam, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolcam.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolcam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Coolcam · An Chúil Cham
- Area
- 57,893 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Lady's Island, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysheen, Castletown, Loginsherd, Ring, Ring Green, Ring Little
- Placenames
- Coolcam on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.